Cuba: An American History
Cuba

Cuba: An American History

by Ada Ferrer

Revolution & Change Non-Fiction History Political Writing 2022

Summary

Cuba’s history is inseparable from that of the United States, yet the island’s story is often told through the ambitions of its powerful neighbour. Spanning more than five centuries, Ada Ferrer’s Pulitzer Prize-winning history traces Cuba from Indigenous societies and Spanish colonisation through slavery, independence struggles, revolution, and the Cold War. Bringing together the lives of enslaved people, revolutionaries, ordinary citizens, and political leaders, Ferrer reveals how Cuba shaped American politics just as American intervention transformed Cuba. Richly researched and deeply human, this sweeping account challenges familiar narratives of empire and nationhood, illuminating the complex relationship between two countries whose histories remain profoundly intertwined.

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Ada Ferrer is a Cuban-born American historian and the Dayton-Stockton Professor of History at Princeton University. Her scholarship focuses on Cuba, slavery, race, revolution, and the connections between Cuba and the wider Atlantic world. Her book Cuba: An American History won the 2022 Pulitzer Prize for History and the Los Angeles Times Book Prize in History. Her earlier work, Freedom’s Mirror: Cuba and Haiti in the Age of Revolution, received several major historical awards, including the Frederick Douglass Book Prize. Born in Cuba and raised in the United States, Ferrer has returned to Cuba for research since 1990. In Keeper of My Kin, she brings her historian’s perspective to her own family’s story, combining archival documents and correspondence with personal memories to explore how migration and political conflict shape identity across generations.

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2022
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